Week 7

Week 7 was an important lesson for me considering I struggle to slow my pace down when talking. After doing the usual warm ups of lazy days and projecting our voice in the motions of prayer, crouching, resonating your voice to the wall and the room and then mouth warm ups we looked into the idea of detail within speeches. After doing the usual warm ups, yoga, lazy days, and exercising our mouth muscles we went on to picking detail out of speech.

We started by getting into pairs and reading out parts of a speech and at the end of every sentence, the partner who was listening had to ask questions which the reader would answer by placing emphasis on that part of the speech which answers the question.

After this, another exercise that helped massively was ‘drop the bag.’ This game we all started walking around holding a bag in the ear. At the end of every full stop, we put the bag down and swapped bags. As the game continued, at every separate punctuation a new move was added in. for example, commas you had to turn on the spot, semi colons you had to stand on your tip toes before continuing.